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Work · August 16, 2016

Window Focus

Highlight active apps & dim your screen

Window Focus launched on August 16, 2016 with 134 votes, #274 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

Download Window Focus - Dim Screen by FIPLAB Ltd on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Window Focus - Dim Screen…

This app does what it says it will do, which is to dim everything except the app that is currently in use. Most of the time that works quite well. What I have found so far, however, is that if I use the split screen feature of macos Sierra, neither app is considered in use and therefore both are dim. There is a way to fix that, which is to turn window focus off while working in split screen and then turn it back on when leaving split screen mode. There may be a more elegant solution that I have not yet discovered. This app does what it says it will do, which is to dim everything except the app that is currently in use. Most of the time that works quite well. What I have found so far,…from apps.apple.com

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